A dispositional approach to psychological climate: relationships between interpersonal harmony motives and psychological climate for communication safety

This study examined the dispositional antecedents of a climate at the individual level, psychological climate for communication safety. The impact of two interpersonal harmony motives, harmony enhancement and disintegration avoidance, on psychological climate for communication safety, innovative per...

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Main Authors: Wang, Jie, Leung, Kwok, Zhou, Fan
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Published: Sage Publications 2014
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52125/
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author Wang, Jie
Leung, Kwok
Zhou, Fan
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Leung, Kwok
Zhou, Fan
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description This study examined the dispositional antecedents of a climate at the individual level, psychological climate for communication safety. The impact of two interpersonal harmony motives, harmony enhancement and disintegration avoidance, on psychological climate for communication safety, innovative performance and the moderated mediated processes associated with job autonomy were examined in a survey study in China. Results showed that harmony enhancement was positively related to innovative performance through psychological climate for communication safety. Moreover, job autonomy moderated the relationship between harmony motives and psychological climate for communication safety. Harmony enhancement was more strongly associated with psychological climate for communication safety when job autonomy was low. The relationship between disintegration avoidance and psychological climate for communication safety was positive when job autonomy was high, but negative when job autonomy was low. Conditional indirect effects consistent with these interaction effects were also found.
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spelling nottingham-521252020-05-04T16:43:56Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52125/ A dispositional approach to psychological climate: relationships between interpersonal harmony motives and psychological climate for communication safety Wang, Jie Leung, Kwok Zhou, Fan This study examined the dispositional antecedents of a climate at the individual level, psychological climate for communication safety. The impact of two interpersonal harmony motives, harmony enhancement and disintegration avoidance, on psychological climate for communication safety, innovative performance and the moderated mediated processes associated with job autonomy were examined in a survey study in China. Results showed that harmony enhancement was positively related to innovative performance through psychological climate for communication safety. Moreover, job autonomy moderated the relationship between harmony motives and psychological climate for communication safety. Harmony enhancement was more strongly associated with psychological climate for communication safety when job autonomy was low. The relationship between disintegration avoidance and psychological climate for communication safety was positive when job autonomy was high, but negative when job autonomy was low. Conditional indirect effects consistent with these interaction effects were also found. Sage Publications 2014-04-01 Article PeerReviewed Wang, Jie, Leung, Kwok and Zhou, Fan (2014) A dispositional approach to psychological climate: relationships between interpersonal harmony motives and psychological climate for communication safety. Human Relations, 67 (4). pp. 489-515. ISSN 1741-282X Communication safety; Harmony; Innovative performance; Job autonomy; Psychological climate https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726713495423 doi:10.1177/0018726713495423 doi:10.1177/0018726713495423
spellingShingle Communication safety; Harmony; Innovative performance; Job autonomy; Psychological climate
Wang, Jie
Leung, Kwok
Zhou, Fan
A dispositional approach to psychological climate: relationships between interpersonal harmony motives and psychological climate for communication safety
title A dispositional approach to psychological climate: relationships between interpersonal harmony motives and psychological climate for communication safety
title_full A dispositional approach to psychological climate: relationships between interpersonal harmony motives and psychological climate for communication safety
title_fullStr A dispositional approach to psychological climate: relationships between interpersonal harmony motives and psychological climate for communication safety
title_full_unstemmed A dispositional approach to psychological climate: relationships between interpersonal harmony motives and psychological climate for communication safety
title_short A dispositional approach to psychological climate: relationships between interpersonal harmony motives and psychological climate for communication safety
title_sort dispositional approach to psychological climate: relationships between interpersonal harmony motives and psychological climate for communication safety
topic Communication safety; Harmony; Innovative performance; Job autonomy; Psychological climate
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